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Eva Talel heads Stroock's Co-op and Condominium Board Representation Group and is a Partner in its Real Estate Department. Stroock represents over 200 co-ops and condos in every facet of their management and operations, and serves as counsel to the Real Estate Board of New York's Residential Management Council. Ms. Talel's leadership in this industry is underscored by receiving REBNY's Residential Management Council's 2014 Community Service Award for her contributions to the co-op and condo community, recently being awarded "Top Women to Watch for in 2014" by New York Residential Magazine, and is further highlighted by her role as Chairperson of the New York City Bar Association's Committee on Cooperative & Condominium Law for the 2007 – 2010 term.

Ms. Talel is a permanent "Expert Opinion" columnist for the New York Law Journal, is regularly interviewed by reporters for TheNew York Times Sunday Real Estate Section (as well as the Times' online Real Estate Q & A column), has provided co-op and condo expertise to WNBC's "Today in New York" news program and has regularly appeared on NY1 News to comment on cutting edge legal issues. Ms. Talel also frequently provides expert commentary to The Wall Street Journal, The Real Deal, Brick Underground, am New York, The Observer and other outlets on the co-op and condo marketplace.

Ms. Talel serves as an adjunct law professor at New York Law School and as a faculty member for the New York State Judicial Institute, where she educates State Court Judges and Court Attorneys on developments in cooperative and condominium law.

Stroock's co-op and condo representations include luxury apartment houses in Manhattan; residential and mixed-use condominium associations; and large hotel cooperatives (such as The Carlyle, The Pierre and The Sherry-Netherland).

"New Developments Regarding Apartment Alterations," New York Law Journal, January 6, 2010

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New York, 1974

U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, 1974; U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York, 1979; U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, 1974; U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit, 2001; U.S. Supreme Court, 1979

EDUCATION

J.D., New York University School of Law, 1973

B.A., magna cum laude, City College of the City University of New York, 1970; Phi Beta Kappa

Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP, a national law firm with offices in New York, Los Angeles and Miami, announced that 57 Stroock partners and counsel have been named to Super Lawyers for 2012. One-half of the firm's partnership is currently listed in Super Lawyers.

In November 2009, this column highlighted measures taken by federal and state legislatures and courts which recognized the emerging importance of electronic communication and permitted co-op and condominium communications to be brought into the electronic era. However, in New York, both the law and co-op and condominium governing documents continue to lag behind innovation in technology. Therefore, there is currently great uncertainty as to whether notices of board and apartment owner meetings sent by email are sufficient to fulfill the notice requirements imposed by co-op and condominium governing documents. Importantly, this uncertainty may call into question not only the validity of email-noticed meetings themselves, but the enforceability of determinations made and action taken at such meetings.